It all began when a very strange man gave him a letter from his parents, whom he was sure were dead. Toby - his full name was Tobyas Thorsen - was thirteen years old, and not even in a dream had he thought that his foster-parents Hannes and Irmchen could have been part of a plot against him.Did they really want to give him shortly before his fourteenth birthday to a secretive stranger?He only just escaped from the planned kidnapping. During the adventurous flight which followed he got to know Tini, a girl of the same age, who deciphered for him a secret message containing the words "Lule¿s End". In this way he reached Verbola, a land behind the Thought Horizon of human beings.After he had made friends with some of the Timers who lived there, both Toby and Tini discovered that "Lule¿s End" stood for the last day of the month of "Elul" in the Jewish calendar. They soon realised that only a few days were left for them to free Toby¿s parents and prevent a disastrous attack on Verbola...